Narendra Surana

As a CISSP-certified Security Architect with more than 17 years of experience, including 14 years at Keysight/Ixia, I bring extensive expertise in IT Networking, Cybersecurity, and Cloud Infrastructure. I am skilled at leading complex projects and excel at engaging with clients to deliver customized solutions that align with their needs. My strong commitment to integrity and diligence consistently leads to exceeding organizational goals and expectations.

• Ensured utmost customer satisfaction by engaging at all aspects of solution design and delivery with zero escalation in the last 8 years
• Trained defense, government, and enterprise clients around core networking and security concepts across multiple countries.
• Collaborated with R&D team in the design & development of Keysight cyber range (CySOP) product
• Designed and deployed advanced network security and cyber range solutions.
• Delivered end-to-end consulting across pre-sales, implementation, and post-sales support.
• Optimized security controls, including firewalls, IPS, WAF, and SSL proxies during various testing projects.
• Enhanced cybersecurity defenses using Threat Simulator which is based on MITRE ATT&CK framework.

Certified Information Systems Security Professional, ISC2

A. Australia:

• Working with Westpac Bank for the Network Performance and Security resiliency

testing of their multiple Data Centers in Australia.

• Network Prepared Cyber-Security Flags used for Capture the Flag (CTF) event at World

Skills Australia 2021 and co-conducted the event remotely along with Keysight peers.

• Network Performance testing of KPMG Data Center in Melbourne & Sydney

• Network Performance testing at Bendigo Hospital, Bendigo

• Network Performance and Load testing at Perth Children Hospital (PCH), Perth

B. Singapore and Malaysia:

• Working with Mandai Park Development Pte Ltd, Singapore, to test the network

resiliency of their Rain Forest Data Center devices and their park’s WLAN Performance

• Delivered a 5G O-RAN project with Singapore University and Technical Design (SUTD) in

network security attack generation on 5G O-RAN infrastructure

• Delivered Custom Cyber Range project for German Malaysia Institute (GMI) and

Malaysia Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT) in Malaysia.

• Delivered a cybersecurity-related project with the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in

Singapore dealing with network security traffic generation

• Delivered a Network and WLAN Performance testing for Mandai Park Development Pte

Ltd, Singapore, Singapore to test the network resiliency of Data Center devices

• Delivered a Firewall and Network Access Control (NAC) performance testing project at

Government Technology Agency (GovTech) Singapore

• Delivered a Cyber Range and a Capture the Flag solution at Temasek Polytechnic

• Delivered a remote FortiGate 100G performance assessment project for M1, Singapore

• Worked with Singtel and Ericsson for IxLoad VE Assessment using DPDK, PCI-PT and SRIOV

technologies to generate very high throughput on a virtual platform.

• Conducted a BPS-VE Proof of Concept (PoC) project with National Cybersecurity R&D

Laboratories (NCL)

• Delivered a Breaking Point System training to Infocomm Media Development Authority

(IMDA), a government body in Singapore

• Network Resiliency and Security Assessment of DNS infrastructure at StarHub

• Network Resiliency Assessment of Palo-Alto 7080 at Republic Polytechnic (RP)

• Delivered network performance testing of Nan Yang Polytechnic (NYP) new Data Center

• Conducted Cyber Range Event at Honeywell

C. Global:

• Working with Ministry of Defense (MOD), Vietnam for delivering custom Cyber-Range

solution delivery

• Delivered a cyber security project comprising of Keysight cyber range (CySOP), Breaking

Point System and Threat Simulator at Rajasthan State Government (RISL), India

• Delivered a Cloud Migration testing for HDFC Bank in India to help them migrate to

AWS, Azure and GCP Clouds from their existing Data Center

• Delivered a Cyber Range Solution along with Capture the Flag solution to Indian Army

Signals team in Jabalpur, India

• Delivered a custom Cyber Range Solution along with Capture the Flag solution to

DIRECTION GÉNÉRALE DE LA SÉCURITÉ DES SYSTÈMES D'INFORMATION (DGSSI) in

Morocco

• Delivered a Performance and Security testing solution for Cloud Migration using CyPerf

Cloud testing solution on AWS and GCP cloud platforms at HDFC Bank, India.

• Prepared Linux and Windows based Flags used for Capture the Flag (CTF) event at Royal

Thai Armed Forces (RTARF) in Thailand

• Delivered Basic and Advanced Breaking Point System (BPS) training at Ministry of

Defense (MoD) and Royal Thai Armed Forces (RTARF), Thailand

• Delivered Custom Cyber Range project for National Cyber and Crypto Agency (Badan

Siber dan Sandi Negara (BSSN)) in Indonesia.

• Delivered a DDoS and Malicious SMTP traffic generation project for Telkomsel,

Indonesia.

• 4-phased Network and Security Assessment at Toyota Astra Motors, Indonesia.